• 8+ years of technical risk assessment experience
• Experience running complex assessments across multiple security domains, creating findings, and reviewing remediation items
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, or related discipline, or additional equivalent technology experience
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work well on a largely geographically distributed
• Experience working in a technical role with a solid grasp of security fundamentals, testing, and risk management

Desirable

• The Third Party Security (TPS) team looking for a highly motivated Security Specialist III
• TPS is responsible for assessing the security of third party who get access to Amazon’s data, to determine if the third party meets Amazon’s security bar. If you enjoy working at scale in a rapidly changing environment and influencing the protection of our customers within a large global organization, this position will provide you with a challenging opportunity
• Acting as subject matter expert on risk-based security reviews and assessments of third party vendors
• Conducting peer reviews and sample testing to maintain a high-bar of quality for risk assessments
• Ensuring the risk assessment framework is up to date on the latest industry controls and applicable threats
• Coordinating contractors, employees, and vendors in conducting assessments, testing controls, and implementing remediation
• Collecting/reviewing data from multiple sources to assess a third party's security
• Building, evolving, and improving sustainable processes and measurement systems to ensure that security policy requirements are maintained
• Preparing reports for senior management on the state of vendor compliance